Ruminants including domestic livestock, have been accused of causing damaging impacts
on the global environment and human well-being. However, with appropriate management …

Societal, economic and scientific interests in knowing where biodiversity is, how it is faring
and what can be done to efficiently mitigate further biodiversity loss and the associated loss …

The widespread extirpation of megafauna may have destabilized ecosystems and altered
biodiversity globally. Most megafauna extinctions occurred before the modern record …

Plant productivity varies due to environmental heterogeneity, and theory suggests that plant
diversity can reduce this variation. While there is strong evidence of diversity effects on …

Maintaining or enhancing the productive capacity and resilience of rangeland ecosystems is
critical for the continued support of people who depend on them for their livelihoods …

In spite of overwhelming experimental evidence to the contrary, rotational grazing continues
to be promoted and implemented as the only viable grazing strategy. The goals of this …

For more than 50 y ecologists have believed that spatial heterogeneity in habitat conditions
promotes species richness by increasing opportunities for niche partitioning. However, a …

Our understanding of fire and grazing is largely based on small‐scale experimental studies
in which treatments are uniformly applied to experimental units that are considered …

The interactions between fire and grazing are widespread throughout fire‐dependent
landscapes. The utilization of burned areas by grazing animals establishes the fire–grazing …

Fire positively and negatively affects food webs across all trophic levels and guilds and
influences a range of ecological processes that reinforce fire regimes, such as nutrient …